Introduction to Solid State PhysicsNew edition of the most widely-used textbook on solid state physics in the world. Describes how the excitations and imperfections of actual solids can be understood with simple models that have firmly established scope and power. The foundation of this book is based on experiment, application and theory. Several significant advances in the field have been added including high temperature superconductors, quasicrystals, nanostructures, superlattices, Bloch/Wannier levels, Zener tunneling, light-emitting diodes and new magnetic materials. |
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... Fourier analysis . The most inter- esting properties of crystals are directly related to the Fourier components of the electron density . We consider first a function n ( x ) with period a in the direction x , in one dimension . We ...
... Fourier analysis . The most inter- esting properties of crystals are directly related to the Fourier components of the electron density . We consider first a function n ( x ) with period a in the direction x , in one dimension . We ...
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... Fourier space may have a meaning as a description of a wave , but there is a special significance to the points defined by the set of G's associated with a crystal structure . The vectors G in the Fourier series ( 9 ) are just the ...
... Fourier space may have a meaning as a description of a wave , but there is a special significance to the points defined by the set of G's associated with a crystal structure . The vectors G in the Fourier series ( 9 ) are just the ...
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... Fourier expansion of any one Bloch function . If one particular wavevector k is contained in a 4 , then all other wavevectors in the Fourier expansion of this will have the form k + G , where G is any reciprocal lattice vector . We ...
... Fourier expansion of any one Bloch function . If one particular wavevector k is contained in a 4 , then all other wavevectors in the Fourier expansion of this will have the form k + G , where G is any reciprocal lattice vector . We ...
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PERIODIC ARRAYS OF ATOMS | 3 |
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INDEX SYSTEM FOR CRYSTAL PLANES | 12 |
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